Andoya is in a different world, set at the northern edge of Europe in what seems to be a time and weather of its own.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sometimes the fantasy writers set their novels in an ancient Earth, sometimes a parallel Earth, or, quite often, they offered no explanation at all as to the temporal and geographic location.
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.
'Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that.
The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.